U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently added new countries to its travel guidelines concerning the Zika virus, warning people who travel to these regions that the virus is at large.
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Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently stated that preliminary overall influenza vaccine effectiveness amounts to 59 percent for this influenza season.
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The White House announced the creation of The National Action Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, an initiative to target the strain of TB that has proved resistant to common courses of drug therapy and affects countries worldwide. With this initiative, attention is given to particular types of TB in a time when it has become treatable and is in decline.
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Sierra Leone, once a hotspot of Ebola outbreaks, was removed on Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) list of nations and ports subject to enhanced screening for health conditions and diseases.
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Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the death rates for HIV patients in the southern U.S. are three times higher than the death rates for HIV patients in other regions of the U.S.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that up to one-third of health care providers don't know about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which when taken as a daily pill reduces the risk of HIV infection by more than 90 percent in sexually active patients.
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Emerging Infectious Disease Journal recently featured a series of articles about Ebola and studies related to it, including a look at the stability of RNA within the Ebola virus using urine samples and EDTA blood samples taken from people infected with the virus.
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Health professionals in South Korea have reported that there have not been any evolutionary rate changes in Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) throughout the 2015 MERS outbreak.
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Health professionals recently announced that the outbreak of exanthematous illness in Salvador, Brazil, is connected to the Chikungunya, dengue and zika viruses that have grown to be significant public health threats around the world.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collaborated with the World Health Organization, government agencies, and international and domestic partners to respond to the ongoing Ebola outbreak based in West Africa.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released preliminary findings from a study suggesting that male survivors of Ebola can still have Ebola virus fragments in their semen at least nine months after contracting the illness.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that it has donated new funding to six new medical research centers to further healthcare innovations by finding new methods of protecting patients from germs.
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